PowerInbox Raises Additional $800K In Seed Funding

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PowerInbox, the new email platform that lets you run apps for Facebook, Twitter, Groupon and Google+ inside your inbox, just closed an additional $800, 000 in seed funding, bringing its total Series Seed to $1.9 million.

The company had previously raised $1.1 million in August, mostly from AngelList investors.

The company plans to use its additional funding to further expand the platform and hire engineers.

For those unfamiliar with Powerinbox, it’s one of the most practical applications I’ve come across in recent months. The service runs on top of your email platform (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and soon, Outlook) by augmenting the messages sent to you by various services, essentially turning your emails into apps. You can follow, message, and @reply Twitter users, like and reply to Facebook posts, add users to Google+ Circles, keep track of the time left to grab a Groupon and more, all from within the email message itself.

Users have told PowerInbox (via this survey, still active) they want to see LinkedIn added next, but there isn’t an API available that would allow PowerInbox to properly leverage that service. Other apps on the startup’s radar include YouTube, Dropbox, Flickr, PayPal, Netflix and more.